WORDS TO THE GIRLS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1062, 18 April 1882, Page 4

WORDS TO THE GIRLS.

The following advice to the girls is I being extensively distributed among j families of the Eastern States. Don’t i go with a man if he is a stranger to you, | or one whose reputation you 'are not I acquainted with. Keinember that in ordinary business the same rule is applied as a protection against the loss of money. No banker or moneylender will trust a stranger ; no business man will sell him goods on time without .guarantee against loss or deception. Why then should a woman, voting or old, trust herself to a man site does not know whether he is honorable or not ? Do not marry a tnau to get rid of him, or to oblige him, or to save him. -A man who has formed bad habits, what is he r What is there of him you can love: The man who wouldgoto destruction without you would quite as likely g' with you, and, perhaps,dragyoualong Keinember, your future happiness depends altogether on the kind of a partner you get, as it is he that makes your home on earth a heaven or a home of sorrow. Therefore, be sure, take none other than one that is equally pure as yourself. Hemember that man, when he looks for a wife, seeks sobriety, virtue and purity in a woman. Why should not women then demand the same of man r Drunkenness turns a man out of himself and leaves a beast in its place. Do not marry for a home and a living when, by taking care of your health, you can be strong enough to earn ycur own living. Be kind and true to your sex. Do not let fathers, mothers, or auuts sell you for money or position into bondage, tears and life long miseries, which you alone must endure. Do not meet any man clandestinely, as it may be to your sorrow. Do not place yourself habitually in the society of any suitor until you have decided the question of matrimony. Human wills are weak —girls, especially, often become bewildered, and do not know their error until it is too late. Get away from all other influence except “ good mothers.” Bettie your bead and make up your mind alone. A word from a good mother will not harm you, as she is the last and crowning handiwork of trod, the link connecting heaven and earth, the endowment of purity, holiness, and heavenly grscm the most perfect combination of n.jsdesty, patience, devotion, affeetitfh, gratitude, and loveliness, and lit for any high or holy trust. Did not she watch over you from infancy to childhood, from childhood to girlhood ? And a mother is more of a mother than a father is a father. Mother knows that a husband’s work is from sun to sun, and a wife’s work is never done. Forget not, a promise may be made in a moment of sympathy, or even half delirious ecstacy, which must be redeemed through years of sorrow, toil, and pain. Forget not, he only that is free from vice is fit to beyour companion, and no other. Drop the company of him at once who has uttered a word unbecoming to true manhood, for if a man is true to himself, then it must follow as the day the night, he cannot be false to woman. As you make your bed, so you must sleep. Take none that has ever slandered or betrayed one of your own sex, or broken’a promise. He is not worthy of a wife, nor will he ever be true to one.